In January our colleagues in Technical Services and Cataloging added 119 items to the rare books, University Archives, and Center for Restoration Studies collections. Many of the new items are bound issues of several mid and late 20th century news-oriented periodicals (Christian Worker, Christian Chronicle, Rocky Mountain Christian, and Christian Journal). These additions either filled in gaps or gave us second copies. We also received a very nice run of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. For these reasons the list below represents more items than meets the eye. As I compile this list each month I don’t include duplicate entries for every item. For example, there is no need to list ‘Christian Journal‘ eight or nine times. Once will do even though we received multiple bound volumes. The unbound, single issue periodicals continue to be a special focus of cooperation between Special Collections and Technical Services, but in January the monographs and periodicals received their due attention. And there are more in the pipeline now, so next months’ report should list even more books that fill out our collection. Also this month are a few new catalog records for some archival collections. Each archival collection also receives a library catalog entry. Amanda has prepared updated, or new, findings aids for a couple dozen collections, and we will roll out those announcements regularly, so stay tuned.
I want to mention, again, that institutional newsletters and periodicals remain a collecting focus. See the lists of recent acquisitions in the October and November 2020 reports. Newsletters, catalogs and yearbooks from sister schools across the Restoration Movement remain a collecting focus. If you can help us build out this set of materials, contact Mac at mac.ice@acu.edu.
Our goal is to build a comprehensive research-level collection of print materials by, for, and about the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. But beyond assembly and preservation, a collection should be discoverable by those who need the information. Collecting and preserving is only part of our task; those objects must be described and made available. Thanks to the close and careful work of our colleagues upstairs, who describe our holdings, these materials are now discoverable. By discoverable I mean a patron can utilize our online catalog (such as by searching by author, or title, or subject) to find these materials.
119 new items…cataloged, shelved, and ready for research:
Catalog Author | Catalog Title |
Baxter, Batsell Barrett, | Speaking for the Master; a study of public speaking for Christian men |
Brown, Alpheus, | Alpheus Brown Papers, 1821-1918 |
Carlson, Alice, | Alice Carlson Papers, 1946-1989 |
Davidson, Clinton, | How I discovered the secret of success in the Bible |
Disciples of Christ. Historical Society. | Research materials |
Holowchak, Mark, | American Messiah : the surprisingly simple religious views of Thomas Jefferson |
Jividen, Jimmy. | Glossolalia ?de Díos o del hombre? : un estudío en el fenómeno del hablar en lenguas |
McCormick, A.M., | A. M. and John McCormick Papers, 1934-1973 |
McGuffey, William Holmes, | McGuffey’s newly revised rhetorical guide, or, Fifth reader of the Eclectic series : containing elegant extracts in prose and poetry, with copious rules and rhetorical exercises |
Morgan, Judith A. | My name was Elmwood : a story of Nashville |
Patterson, James A., | James Robinson Graves : staking the boundaries of Baptist identity |
Phillips, Thomas W. (Thomas Wharton), | The Church of Christ |
Poe, Ted, | Lloyd Theodore ‘Ted’ Poe Papers, 2005-2018 |
Prather, Ewell, | Ewell Prather Papers, 1767-1976 |
Saheli, Ammar. | Eerie silence : race/racism explored across educational, theological, and justice continuums amidst America and beyond |
The Maude Carpenter Children’s Home (Wichita, Kansas) | The home journal |
Thorp Spring Christian College. | The spring board … : the yearbook of Thorp Spring Christian College |
Williams, Debbie Jay, | The monstrous discourse in the Donald Trump campaign : implications for national discourse |
Student directory | |
Yearbook of American and Canadian churches | |
The New Covenant scriptures : a translation | |
The daily Bible : New International Version with devotional insights to guide you through God’s word | |
I wish someone had told me : equity for women in the church | |
Christian worker | |
Christian chronicle | |
Reporter of direct mail evangelism : a program of saturating every household in any area by mail with the Gospel | |
Gospel Broadcast : the national Christian weekly | |
Christian journal | |
Rocky Mountain Christian | |
Gospel Broadcast : the national Christian weekly | |
The Christian appeal | |
Integrity | |
Hermitage Church of Christ (Nashville, TN) Records, 1967-2017 | |
Churches of Christ Audio Collection, 1955-2007 | |
Christian Tape Library Collection, circa 1978 | |
New songs of inspiration |